Re: Getting started with an OpenBSD Desktop...

2016-04-12 Thread Chris Bennett
I use fw_update -a to make sure I have firmware for anything I might run into. That command installs everything! But it will also cover your new wifi card after the present one cooks itself dead later! But all the firmware really isn't that big a group. It's up to you. Chris Bennett

Re: Getting started with an OpenBSD Desktop...

2016-04-14 Thread Chris Bennett
that up while any USB OpenBSD drives are plugged in, the first thing to appear on the screen is that we need to format those disks! Disturbing. Chris Bennett

Re: ~/bin, noexec, and security

2016-04-19 Thread Chris Bennett
sting ones until I finished and removed ~/Tools from PATH. Sometimes it's best to make small risks in order to develop anything new. Hopefully you don't run any packages, because that's where the real risk is at when firefox crashes your system and you lose data into lost+found. Chris Bennett

Re: Apr 4th amd64 snapshot problems, SOLVED

2016-04-22 Thread Chris Bennett
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 05:34:36PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > I have successfully installed this snap on an old 1GB flash drive and it > boots and can install packages. > Happy to know that the snap and my computer work fine together. > > Proper dmesg: > Oops, just noticed I

Re: pkg_mgr, ntfs_3g, sudo, partition access.

2016-04-23 Thread Chris Bennett
n the above, notice how I have prevented anyone from writing any more lousy mp3s to that partition. If drives are coming and going, you will need to manually mount and umount them. Still need to create those directories first. Chris Bennett

Re: Comprehensive user's/programmer's manual for OpenBSD: Do they exist?

2016-05-15 Thread Chris Bennett
you can't get that full picture, forget doing anything very useful. Chris Bennett

Re: apache-httpd-openbsd?

2016-05-15 Thread Chris Bennett
ance to think things over carefully. Chris Bennett

Re: Impossibility of cryptographic verification of downloads

2016-05-25 Thread Chris Bennett
just have to accept that you can't have perfect security. Just beat the first step and live with the other threats. # 2 and 3 have already been compromised. Just don't put any of your really evil secrets on your computer. Pencil and paper? Don't worry and be happy! Chris Bennett

I need to get a Russian keyboard

2016-05-26 Thread Chris Bennett
h and either grab a Spanish keyboard or use setxkbmap es and just remember what key is what. Is setxkbmap ru going to do the trick or will I need to do something else also or instead? Any advice on what to be sure to find or not find on a keyboard? Thanks, Chris Bennett

Re: I need to get a Russian keyboard

2016-05-27 Thread Chris Bennett
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:14:53AM -0700, Constantine Aleksandrovich Murenin wrote: > On 27 May 2016 at 06:36, Joseph Fierro wrote: > > On 05/27/2016 12:27 AM, Chris Bennett wrote: > >> Any advice on what to be sure to find or not find on a keyboard? > > I'm q

Re: I need to get a Russian keyboard

2016-05-27 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 12:48:52AM +0200, ropers wrote: > On 27 May 2016 at 22:16, Chris Bennett wrote: > > > Can I borrow someone's 3D printer so that I can make my own identical > > keys except with Cyrillic letters only? > > There is no rush, after all, I'm

Re: the balance between OpenBSD and life

2016-05-31 Thread Chris Bennett
s the same thing as "hiring a contractor". Anyway, have a decent life first, OpenBSD second. Hopefully both. Chris Bennett

Re: document the actual meaning of ssh's "command" argument

2016-06-02 Thread Chris Bennett
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 07:56:46AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > Documentation is an art (though, honestly...jmc@ makes it almost a > science...it's amazing to watch, really). Include too much, the > important details "everyone needs to know" are lost in the noise of > "stuff most people/target aud

sysmerge equivalent to upgrade.site?

2016-06-04 Thread Chris Bennett
uses that directory? Thanks, Chris Bennett

Re: sysmerge equivalent to upgrade.site?

2016-06-04 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 09:05:09PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > Sat, 4 Jun 2016 12:37:14 -0500 Chris Bennett > > > I am following the same procedure for each snapshot I install. > > Download files to one USB hard drive, boot bsd.rd, install to other USB > > flash drive

Re: sysmerge equivalent to upgrade.site?

2016-06-04 Thread Chris Bennett
, should I just right a script to get run when securelevel=0? I'm open to either idea. I just wanted to bring my situation to light in case others might want a solution in base. Thanks, Chris Bennett

Re: META: Does this list have no moderators?

2016-06-04 Thread Chris Bennett
e between trolls and annoying people. Over the years, some some of the best advice I have been given was by the homeless and crack cocaine addicts. Chris Bennett

Re: startx is taking a long time to initiate

2016-06-05 Thread Chris Bennett
rtx and move on without delay? (Any downside to doing this ^C?) Thanks, Chris Bennett

Re: startx is taking a long time to initiate

2016-06-05 Thread Chris Bennett
m IP's when I put in the other WiFi card. If I use the nwid, that will be for two different IP addresses. Is that a proper, not jury-rigged answer? I asked because this seemed to fall into the previous question. Chris Bennett

DNS servers around here not working for days. dig works. fix?

2016-06-14 Thread Chris Bennett
x27;t work from IP. I am coming through wifi with NAT that I do not control. Any fixes to this problem. Thanks, Chris Bennett

Re: DNS servers around here not working for days. dig works. fix?

2016-06-14 Thread Chris Bennett
Neither 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 works. After netstart, no. After reboot, no.

Re: DNS servers around here not working for days. dig works. fix?

2016-06-14 Thread Chris Bennett
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 06:50:53PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > I don't know if this will be usable for your case, here at home the aDSL > modem tries to be the resolver. The trouble is with the ISP: their DNS > servers are quite frequently unreliable and unstable. They even affect > the PPP c

Re: DNS servers around here not working for days. dig works. fix?

2016-06-14 Thread Chris Bennett
They both work for me also, with dig @8.8.8.8, etc. Whois fails, lynx, elinks, firefox cannot connect outside Could this problem be because of my being behind the wifi NAT? Chris Bennett

Re: DNS servers around here not working for days. dig works. fix?

2016-06-14 Thread Chris Bennett
f.root-servers.net. . 7157IN NS c.root-servers.net. ;; Received 228 bytes from 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) in 44 ms dig: couldn't get address for 'i.root-servers.net': not found Chris Bennett

Re: make optional servers insttall

2016-06-14 Thread Chris Bennett
about how new hardware has so much space, just buy this or buy that. How about telling that to the genius 9 year old who has no allowance but there is some old crappy hardware sitting around. Isn't OpenBSD still following the goal of working on older hardware and other restraints? Chris Bennett

Re: DNS servers around here not working for days. dig works. fix?

2016-06-14 Thread Chris Bennett
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 05:28:48PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2016-06-14, Chris Bennett wrote: > > They both work for me also, with dig @8.8.8.8, etc. > > Whois fails, lynx, elinks, firefox cannot connect outside > > > > Could this problem be because of m

Re: DNS servers around here not working for days. dig works. fix?

2016-06-14 Thread Chris Bennett
ll it to have the > far end resolve DNS (in Firefox, tick the 'remote DNS' box). > For now, this works. I'm a little tired right now. This is working. I will try later or tomorrow to get a proper solution. This is not going to be an everyday solution! Thanks, Chris Bennett

Re: Long life on SSD in a firewall environment

2016-06-19 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 09:02:45PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > The only hot spot > > To ensure long life, it is more important to keep electronics cool. > An excellent way to keep your firewall box "cool" is to put some nice OpenBSD stickers on the outside. Be sure to wear an OpenBSD

Re: How make "pkg_add" auto-choose some package version for me when same package is available in more versions?

2016-07-03 Thread Chris Bennett
x.x and some others which require python 2.x.x. Even more as a good example, look at all of the different versions of autoconf. How could an automated version of pkg_add possibly guess which version you actually need in two months? Chris Bennett

Re: How make "pkg_add" auto-choose some package version for me when same package is available in more versions?

2016-07-04 Thread Chris Bennett
SD. His work and dedication deserves respect. You should look at how things have improved tremendously since OpenBSD forked from NetBSD. The mailing lists go way back. I've read some of the older stuff. Impressive history. OpenBSD has it's own, distinct culture. I like it. Chris Bennett

Re: image view and manipulation

2016-07-04 Thread Chris Bennett
m going to do just that. Will save me a lot of time fiddling with images with gimp for other tasks than cropping and a little color fiddling. For re-sizing and rotating. I can do that on the fly. Fewer files, nice. Enjoy, Chris Bennett

Getting a lot of spam from Gmail,etc. How can I reject those? Can't trap with spamd

2016-07-08 Thread Chris Bennett
il probably wouldn't like that either. Any ideas what I should do? The only thing I have thought of would be to reject those as a non-existent user just for those spam messages, but I'm not sure how to make that happen. Die spammers, Die!!! Chris Bennett

Re: ipad as an USB disk

2016-07-08 Thread Chris Bennett
d option on my phone. Chris Bennett

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-21 Thread Chris Bennett
ctive? SSD's are getting much bigger now. Are they now considered more reliable, less reliable or not decided yet against spinning disks? Chris Bennett

Re: strange behaviour spamd

2016-07-22 Thread Chris Bennett
sses. Which means that the only way I can block them is with pfctl blocking the address permanently? Some of these IP addresses are forged, but would still block that address for the incoming spam. Seriously, I'm looking at this wrong or is there another answer I'm not seeing? Thanks, Chris Bennett

A request for assistance with a project I started for OpenBSD

2016-08-05 Thread Chris Bennett
k AND time this will take. So I am asking for anyone that can code. Anyone that can test. You may reply to me on-list or off-list. If you reply off-list, please tell me if you want your email private or if it can be made public to others. Thanks to anyone who would like to help, Chris Bennett

Re: A request for assistance with a project I started for OpenBSD

2016-08-05 Thread Chris Bennett
d myself a little lost in finding threads about something specific, like this, very difficult. If anyone has suggestions about that, I would welcome it. Thanks, Chris Bennett

Re: A request for assistance with a project I started for OpenBSD

2016-08-06 Thread Chris Bennett
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:14:55AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > > Are you running off of a print server machine or just a single > machine(s) connected to printer(s)? > I need to clarify this question better. A network printer can be: 1. A direct network from computer A to t

Re: github

2016-08-07 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 11:17:21AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: > > Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 17:59:07 +0300 > > From: con...@gmx.com > > To: > misc@openbsd.org > > Subject: Re: github > > > > And github offers two-factor authentication, so if enabled, not simple > to hack the account. > Github is ru

Re: github

2016-08-07 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 06:43:02PM +0300, Consus wrote: > Sign your commits with GPG. Looky, a link: > > https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work > > Not that hard, is it? > OK, you win. Would you do me a favor first. Before this big move, could you make a commit to the

Re: github

2016-08-07 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 10:06:56AM -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > whereas on GitHub it would belong to a corporation. > > Doesn't that simply end the discussion right there? Yes. This thread hasĀ been informative to me. Forget the silly move from CVS part, never was an issue. I did NOT know that G

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Chris Bennett
l of viruses. The software is free, but people are only too happy to buy silly bullshit like that. There are many such things that can be sold without making any changes to the software licenses. After all, the certification guarantees that any security problems will absolutely be fixed within 6 months! Any price suggestions? Standard or Pro certifications? Chris Bennett

Can't install/update any ports after latest snapshot

2014-01-19 Thread Chris Bennett
mem = 515604480 (491MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 01/12/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf76a0 (61 entries) bios0: vendor Dell Computer Corporation version "A10" date 01/12/2004 bios0: Dell Computer Corporation Latitude C640 Chris Bennett

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Bennett
little and put -current at home/office and test and then install if OK. It never hurts to be careful. And backup everything before you turn off those disks since they are old. Old disks keep running but often can't restart from a stop. Chris Bennett

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Bennett
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 03:54:17PM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > > > > It never hurts to be careful. And backup everything before you turn off > > those disks since they are old. Old disks keep running but often can't > > restart from a stop. > > Yeah keep backups any of this crazy stuff will d

Printing problem

2014-02-19 Thread Chris Bennett
imate_details_for_customer or lpr -Paps1 estimate_details_for_customer Any advice? Chris Bennett

Re: Printing problem

2014-02-20 Thread Chris Bennett
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:00:03PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:32:36PM -0800, Jeremy Evans wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Chris Bennett < > > chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote: > > > > > I don't pri

No audio

2014-02-22 Thread Chris Bennett
g kernel modesetting (RV200 0x1002:0x4C57 0x1028:0x012A). radeondrm0: GTT: 64M 0xE800 - 0xEBFF radeondrm0: VRAM: 128M 0xE000 - 0xE7FF (32M used) ttm_pool_mm_shrink_init stub drm: Panel ID String: 1024x768 wsdisplay0 at radeondrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) Chris Bennett

Re: No audio

2014-02-22 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 04:47:25PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > I noticed error message on boot a while ago, but wasn't paying much > attention until right now. > > I get: > mixerctl outputs.master=200 > mixerctl: /dev/mixer: Device not configured > > home $ mi

Re: No audio

2014-02-23 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 05:07:32PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 04:47:25PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > > I noticed error message on boot a while ago, but wasn't paying much > > attention until right now. > > > > I get: > > mixerctl

Re: while trying to compile gettext 0.18.3.2 I see questionable messages

2014-02-23 Thread Chris Bennett
tf() is often misused, > please use snprintf() > > > Are these messages coming from within the OpenBSD world ? > > dc > Very much so. Check out http://www.gratisoft.us/todd/papers/strlcpy.html Also do some searches on mailing lists, excellent messages about subject. And follow advice if you write any code. Chris Bennett

Left side and bottom of boot text console off of screen now

2014-03-08 Thread Chris Bennett
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-|--+ ++ Everything else is working fine. Chris Bennett OpenBSD 5.5 (GENERIC.MP) #315: Wed Mar 5 09:37:46 MST 2014 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 6156910592

Re: Left side and bottom of boot text console off of screen now

2014-03-08 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:06:54AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > On 03/08/14 08:51, Chris Bennett wrote: > > As of this update, I have had these two portions of the screen move off > > of visible area. > > "this update" ... from what? > I'm going to assume f

Re: Left side and bottom of boot text console off of screen now

2014-03-09 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 10:17:35PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > oof. I got one of those, an old Dell thing. Accepts lots of things, > does none of them well, it seems. I'm still thinking you have a monitor > problem more than a computer problem, though certainly not supposed to > happen with DVI

Re: OpenBSD Website, multilanguage faq

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Bennett
people contributing, not just one person) and only need small updates. The website is pretty essential to someone clueless, but brave. Perhaps some ports for base commands only? man --lang=es rm or something like that? How many minutes to just add a translation for rm, mv and cp? Regularly I see people wanting something helpful to do, but they can't program C or this or that, etc. This would give something for non-developers to do and feel good about. Chris Bennett

Re: OpenBSD Website, multilanguage faq

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Bennett
non-developers feel > good". A soup kitchen is what you are looking for. > I don't really care who does it. If I get something I want, then I win. These things are lots of work. I don't have time to change the world. So if this gets done, I get something I can use. I'll throw in what I can towards it when I have free time. Chris Bennett

Re: OpenBSD Website, multilanguage faq

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Bennett
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 04:09:35PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 13:39, Chris Bennett wrote: > > If that's all it takes, use google translate. At least then people > know the translation may not be accurate. As it is, putting something > on the www.openb

Re: OpenBSD Website, multilanguage faq

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Bennett
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 03:27:28PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > Well, if my ideas suck, better to have stuck it out there than offer > > nothing. > > You have offered nothing. > > You offered "Ideas"? You didn't offer ideas -- you offered demands > that we should reinstante something.

Re: Only two holes in a heck of a long time, but why?

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Bennett
base software and run software that only works off of base. Hmm, very static. X is also built in. Gee, base is so insecure!! Chris Bennett

Re: Only two holes in a heck of a long time, but why?

2014-04-07 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 03:38:17PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Chris Bennett [chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us] wrote: > > > > X is also built in. > > Gee, base is so insecure!! > > > > X is a security disaster > Most of the internet sites I use work

Re: Why is tmpfs not working on OpenBSD?

2021-09-08 Thread Chris Bennett
would like to see others motivated to doing medium sized projects with less confusion. Reviewers too. As far as to leaving certain unmaintained src and broken ports in the tree, I have no problem with that. Many broken ports eventually get fixed. We all benefit from that. Chris Bennett

Re: Determining the number of CPU cores and hyperthreads from userspace

2021-09-19 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:37:05PM -0400, Daniel Wilkins wrote: > Hyperthreads are easy: they've been disabled for years (unless they got > flipped on and I didn't notice.) > Does the setting in the BIOS need to be turned off also? Or is it irrelevant? I had a server for a while where the compan

Server certs expired higher up the chain, imaps and https

2021-09-30 Thread Chris Bennett
rocks -connect mail.strengthcouragewisdom.rocks:https However are not happy. I force updated my ssl certs, syspatch, pkg_add -u and rebooted. I didn't rebuild dh.pem for dovecot. Is this just a DNS propagation issue? Or should I do something further myself? Thanks Chris Bennett

Re: Server certs expired higher up the chain, imaps and https

2021-10-02 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 05:25:17PM +0200, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > > I've nominated you for the "most helpful person around" award. > There just have to be clones! I don't see how he has enough time. So +1 or +2 or +3.. Chris

Re: pkg_add still reporting incorrect actions

2021-10-09 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 09:53:46PM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote: > I am running amd64-current from snapshots. I am installing a lot of > packages using pkg_add -vV pkg1 pkg2 ... > > I got some strange reports, see below. This is the third email about this, > maybe isn't it a big deal. > pkg_add -D

Re: use pfctl to reread /etc/mail/spamd-white table

2021-10-29 Thread Chris Bennett
tion is not really mentioned anywhere. (Forgive the noise if that has changed) My assumption years ago was that pf would update the files itself. Obviously, I didn't realize that for a while. Neither did my files. -- Chris Bennett

Re: Default window manager

2021-11-28 Thread Chris Bennett
figuration to my needs. I install the fvwm2 version from ports, but base version works great. fvwm3 is also available now, so it is an actively developed software. Not sure when/if that will get ported in. -- Chris Bennett

Problems with a fresh install not finding SSD drive over floppy img HTML5/KVM

2021-11-30 Thread Chris Bennett
shows up with a status of up. The new one has a status of NA. Any help deeply appreciated. I will probably end up requesting a spinning 1TB drive. But I have some doubts at this point if I am getting junk boxes. This was with a Black Friday discount. -- Chris Bennett

Re: Problems with a fresh install not finding SSD drive over floppy img HTML5/KVM

2021-11-30 Thread Chris Bennett
After looking over the list, it looks like many SSD's have compatibility problems, so I'm just going to switch over to a spinning drive. Sorry for the noise. -- Chris Bennett

Re: Problems with a fresh install not finding SSD drive over floppy img HTML5/KVM

2021-11-30 Thread Chris Bennett
On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 03:25:30PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Chris Bennett wrote: > > > After looking over the list, it looks like many SSD's have compatibility > > problems, so I'm just going to switch over to a spinning drive. > > That is news to us

Re: Problems with a fresh install not finding SSD drive over floppy img HTML5/KVM

2021-12-01 Thread Chris Bennett
the effort, it would be helpful to have this noted. I mentioned my Samsung drive because my really quick search on the mailing list only mentioned problems for this brand of drive having interface problems. It was not a detailed search. Happy to now have amd64 -current. -- Thank all of you for the help, Chris Bennett

Re: Error on xenocara.tar.gz extraction

2022-01-13 Thread Chris Bennett
but I have no idea if they are true. -- Chris Bennett

Keyboard input problems after disk corruption in crashes. Both in console and xterm.

2022-01-20 Thread Chris Bennett
consider? I am using 6.6 amd64 and FVWM2 from ports. I can't update past 6.6. Any help really appreciated! -- Thanks, Chris Bennett

Re: Keyboard input problems after disk corruption in crashes. Both in console and xterm.

2022-01-20 Thread Chris Bennett
On January 20, 2022 4:10:28 PM PST, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2022-01-20, lumidify wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 10:45:27AM -0800, Chris Bennett wrote: >>> I had several accidental crashes which left lost+found in home folder. >>> up arrow fails in terminals a

Re: Desktop performance

2024-05-04 Thread Chris Bennett
wrong. But if there isn't anyone with the time or desire to do it, no problem. -- Regards, Chris Bennett "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell - 1984

Re: Favorite configuration and system replication tools?

2024-05-12 Thread Chris Bennett
onvenient. > I download a lot of files with a hideous mess of characters. I wrote a small script to substitute in acceptable characters. I can enter a regex, select to just use a directory or go down recursively. Also I can select to only change filenames or directories or both. After reading

Re: https://twitter.com/openbsd

2024-05-12 Thread Chris Bennett
ts rot... > I saw a news bit yesterday that in one town, all of the school children are buying old fashioned typewriters to break their link to computers and do things the old fashioned way. +1 to them. I prefer real text on paper myself. I learn things much better that way. -- Regards, Chri

What software to debugging and analyzing C?

2024-05-12 Thread Chris Bennett
, what other software is useful for working with C? I also wouldn't mind any other useful tips that might not be software. Any help very appreciated. -- Regards, Chris Bennett "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell - 1984

Re: What software to debugging and analyzing C?

2024-05-13 Thread Chris Bennett
gt; I also wouldn't mind any other useful tips that might not be software. > > Any help very appreciated. > > Perhaps this fuzzing guide helps a bit getting programs to run better? > https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150121093259 Thank you and to the others reply

Re: What software to debugging and analyzing C?

2024-05-14 Thread Chris Bennett
code from scratch is the only solution. Many years ago I wrote a trivial Perl script wrong. It very slowly grabbed more and more memory until it crashed the server about every two days. After very carefully watching, I figured out it was my script and I fixed a rather silly bug. I'll never forge

Re: vim editor with TERM

2024-05-31 Thread Chris Bennett
ar commands to the vi editor. -- Regards, Chris Bennett "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell - 1984

[OT] Keyboards, a trick I found and advice requested

2024-06-01 Thread Chris Bennett
find this trick as much of a lifesaver as I did. I can finally touch type again. I'm really not sure that I want to spend $400 on a keyboard that I can't take for a test drive first. -- Regards, Chris Bennett "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the presen

Re: [OT] Keyboards, a trick I found and advice requested

2024-06-05 Thread Chris Bennett
ke on a laptop), it might take even longer to train > your fingers. And, well, $350. > > I hope you find something that works for you. Wrist pain sucks. > This one looks very interesting. I use the keypad with combos of Shift, Alt, Ctrl, Win for a lot of commands in Fvwm. I will definitely consider this one. Thank you. Chris Bennett

Re: mouse cursor no longer changes over hyperlinks in Firefox on OpenBSD 7.5

2024-06-12 Thread Chris Bennett
e pointers in > Gtk based software. > > For fixing problems with tiny pointers in just xterm under fvwm3 I did this: in .Xresources XTerm*pointerShape: left_ptr XTerm*cursorThem: Adwaita Xcursor.size: 32 Xcursor.size can be 64 and also a couple of smaller sizes. There may be other variations on this. I don't know, but this really saved me from a micro pointer. -- Regards, Chris Bennett "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell - 1984

Re: Rate limit the httpd web server for signup requests

2024-06-12 Thread Chris Bennett
Trying to block from a log is not very helpful. It can let through thousands of the same spam attempts before the log catches up to the attempts reaching the log, which is a pretty long time. -- Regards, Chris Bennett "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell - 1984

Re: mouse cursor no longer changes over hyperlinks in Firefox on OpenBSD 7.5

2024-06-12 Thread Chris Bennett
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 10:27:15PM -0700, Chris Bennett wrote: > > For fixing problems with tiny pointers in just xterm under fvwm3 I did this: > in .Xresources > XTerm*pointerShape: left_ptr > XTerm*cursorThem: Adwaita Oops XTerm*cursorTheme: Adwaita > Xcursor.size: 32 >

Re: Rate limit the httpd web server for signup requests

2024-06-13 Thread Chris Bennett
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 04:30:27AM -0700, Paul Pace wrote: > On 6/12/24 10:32 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: > > It's not perfect, but I have a long list of regexes that I know are spam > > that I have my Perl code that processes the form block. Trying to block > > from a log i

Re: Alternative mailing lists

2024-09-15 Thread Chris Bennett
with people grabbing onto that and sending a few million spam or even terrorist messages to government agencies. Nope, not important to have good man pages, not at all. -- Regards, Chris Bennett

elf syspatch on 7.5 stable. Unclear if properly installing. I reverted it.

2024-09-16 Thread Chris Bennett
quot;Intel 100 Series PCIE" rev 0xf1: msi pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ppb4 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 100 Series PCIE" rev 0xf1: msi pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 ppb5 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "ASPEED Technology AST1150 PCI" rev 0x03 pci6 at ppb5 bus 6 vga1 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "ASPEED Technology AST2000" rev 0x30 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel C236 LPC" rev 0x31 "Intel 100 Series PMC" rev 0x31 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 not configured ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 4 "Intel 100 Series SMBus" rev 0x31: apic 2 int 16 iic0 at ichiic0 sdtemp0 at iic0 addr 0x19: stts2004 sdtemp1 at iic0 addr 0x1b: stts2004 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x51: 16GB DDR4 SDRAM ECC PC4-21300 with thermal sensor spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x53: 16GB DDR4 SDRAM ECC PC4-21300 with thermal sensor isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 vmm0 at mainbus0: VMX/EPT uhub1 at uhub0 port 6 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATEN International product 0x7000" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 2 uhidev0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATEN International product 0x2419" rev 1.10/1.00 addr 3 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1 "ATEN International product 0x2419" rev 1.10/1.00 addr 3 uhidev1: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev1: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (045a33c79b9a2ad9.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b -- Regards, Chris Bennett

Re: elf syspatch on 7.5 stable. Unclear if properly installing. I reverted it.

2024-09-16 Thread Chris Bennett
On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 11:09:05PM -0400, Allan Streib wrote: > I have installed the latest syspatches on 4 different 7.5stable amd64 > machines and had no issues with relinking. > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2024, at 22:59, Chris Bennett wrote: > > > *** Parse error in /usr/share/rel

Older dmesg's retained after new install. Similar to disklabel retension on disk?

2024-09-17 Thread Chris Bennett
PCIE" rev 0xf1: msi pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ppb4 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 100 Series PCIE" rev 0xf1: msi pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 ppb5 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "ASPEED Technology AST1150 PCI" rev 0x03 pci6 at ppb5 bus 6 vga1 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "ASPEED Technology AST2000" rev 0x30 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel C236 LPC" rev 0x31 "Intel 100 Series PMC" rev 0x31 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 not configured ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 4 "Intel 100 Series SMBus" rev 0x31: apic 2 int 16 iic0 at ichiic0 sdtemp0 at iic0 addr 0x19: stts2004 sdtemp1 at iic0 addr 0x1b: stts2004 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x51: 16GB DDR4 SDRAM ECC PC4-21300 with thermal sensor spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x53: 16GB DDR4 SDRAM ECC PC4-21300 with thermal sensor isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 vmm0 at mainbus0: VMX/EPT uhub1 at uhub0 port 6 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATEN International product 0x7000" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 2 uhidev0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATEN International product 0x2419" rev 1.10/1.00 addr 3 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1 "ATEN International product 0x2419" rev 1.10/1.00 addr 3 uhidev1: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev1: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (045a33c79b9a2ad9.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b -- Regards, Chris Bennett

Re: Older dmesg's retained after new install. Similar to disklabel retension on disk?

2024-09-17 Thread Chris Bennett
On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 11:57:44AM +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 04:47:13AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > > I had a major problem that required a fresh install from a current to > > 7.5 stable. > > I did find a mention of a "disklabel partitio

Re: spam from chrooted CMSes

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Bennett
Uwe Dippel wrote: When dealing with web based submission, the best thing I have found is to make sure the web based submission adds its own headers like what it is and where the user came from and such so when diagnosing the problem one can easily block based on that information. If there is an a

Cell Phone as Modem

2009-04-16 Thread Chris Bennett
I have a Samsung T-519 cell phone. It has a functional, but not that great a browser. With Windows, it can be used as a modem. There is a usb cable and has bluetooth. Supposedly Windows only software is needed to use phone as modem. I would like to use my laptop with phone when away from interne

Re: kde printing problem (not cups)

2009-04-20 Thread Chris Bennett
Try installing LPRng and apsfilter package. Don't use kde controls, but do it through command line Only use "LPR/LPRng Print System" if actually using LPRng, as far as I know NOTE: all controls are under /usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin!! So you will need to prefix that to get right versions of

dualhead Nvidia FX5200 or MX4000?

2009-04-28 Thread Chris Bennett
I can pick up these two cards very cheap. Nvidia FX5200 or MX4000. Will either work as dualhead? Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort

Mplayer problem with new dualhead setup

2009-05-06 Thread Chris Bennett
I just installed a Radeon 9700 in dualhead. That is working fine as far as I can tell. I am getting what looks like flashes of diagonal text when playing a video in youtube. Goes away if I leave video screen. Sound is unaffected. Using scrotwm. i386, recent -current Chris Bennett OpenBSD 4.5

Re: Mplayer problem with new dualhead setup

2009-05-06 Thread Chris Bennett
I seem to have this fixed now. I changed my .xinitrc to specify modes AND positions explicitly, getting rid of --left-of stuff. Now the problem is gone. Chris Bennett wrote: I just installed a Radeon 9700 in dualhead. That is working fine as far as I can tell. I am getting what looks like

Re: Hey, what is it http://www.openbsdsupport.org/obsd_php_mysql.html

2009-05-06 Thread Chris Bennett
Why are all of you dwelling on the subject of this message? Clearly, the body of the message refers to the important part: subj I don't have an answer to subj, but one of the bad ass developers MUST know! Chris Bennett looptigger wrote: it's ABSOLUTE URL :) On Wed, May 6, 2009

Re: Imagick and php and apache

2009-05-16 Thread Chris Bennett
produced from above with list of files in it. If you use perl, module File::Copy will FAIL (won't copy *.h files, don't know why). Use File::Copy::Recursive module instead. Doing it by hand is also possible of course. Read the FAQ's carefully about chroot and apache!!! Have fun

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